{"id":71,"date":"2008-11-05T19:19:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T03:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2008\/11\/halloween-pumpkins.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:06","slug":"halloween-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2008\/11\/halloween-pumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Pumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween fell on Friday this year so I should have been expecting a &#8220;trick&#8221; or &#8220;treat&#8221; when I arrived at lecture. Little did I know that I would get both.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was seated in the dark when I arrived and two jack-o-lanterns were glowing on the front table. It took me a few moments to figure out that I should look at the front of them to see how they were carved. To my surprise, both had &#8220;organic&#8221; connections, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glucose\"><b>glucose<\/b><\/a> on the right (all equatorial chair conformer) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retinol\"><b>retinol<\/b><\/a> (vitamin A) on the left.<\/p>\n<p>Retinol is a rather long molecule so it required two photos from different angles to capture the entire molecule. Alex, thanks so much.<\/p>\n<p>Left side of molecules (click for full size): <br \/><span class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/files\/bin\/IMG_0747%20trimmed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0747 trimmed.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/files\/2008\/11\/IMG_0747%20trimmed-thumb-200x93.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"200\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Right side of molecules (click for full size):<br \/><span class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/files\/bin\/IMG_0737%20trimmed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0737 trimmed.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/files\/2008\/11\/IMG_0737%20trimmed-thumb-200x120.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween fell on Friday this year so I should have been expecting a &quot;trick&quot; or &quot;treat&quot; when I arrived at lecture. Little did I know that I would get both.Everyone was seated in the dark when I arrived and two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}